How Victoria Clark Learned to Be Fearless

The Tony-winning actress recalls a lively childhood home in Dallas

By

Marc Myers

March 24, 2015 12:01 pm ET

Actress Victoria Clark, 55, won a Tony in 2005 for her role in Broadway’s “The Light in the Piazza” and last season starred as Claire Danes’s mother in Showtime’s “Homeland” series. She currently is starring in Broadway’s “Gigi.” She spoke to Marc Myers.

I was up for anything as a kid. My mother thinks whatever success I have achieved as an actress is because my two older brothers gave me such a hard time growing up. I wanted to be wherever they were, so to get rid of me they constantly dared me to do crazy things. Over time,...